Alex

“Birds are not difficult to understand. Their behaviour tells me what they are thinking. Generally it runs along the lines of: Is this food? Is this? What about this? This might be food. I am almost certain that this is. Or occasionally: It is raining. I do not like it.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“Loving someone is like having a mental illness that's not covered by health insurance.”
― Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

“Of all the women I've known until now, she was the ugliest.”
― Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

“No second Johannesburg is needed upon the earth. One is enough.”
― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country